Monday, 9 January 2017

Cop Seminar : Study Task 5

Image Analysis
  • Descriptive analysis - colour, composition, message, subject, method of production ect. 
  • Contextual analysis - time period, culture, audience, place, client, race, gender, technology, industry...
  • Theoretical analysis - signification, feminism, consumerism, ideology, cultural studies, mythologies. 
Visual Journal - focus on communicating your given theme/subject using the following components of visual language: line, shape, colour, texture, collage. 

What do they mean?

LINE : an identifiable path

SHAPE : an enclosed space defined by other elements e.g. line, colour, value, texture 

COLOUR : A hue - when visible light is reflected into your eye

TEXTURE : the visual 'feel' of 2 dimensional images

COLLAGE : a piece of artwork made from an assemblage of different forms 

What can they mean? 

Conceptually speaking a line, becomes a line because thats what we understand it to be... it is really just a word. A line could technically be a shape, because it has area. How therefore do we define these visual components? 

Evaluating these visual components in relation to the theme of history: 

LINE : family lines/trees, border lines --> conflict

SHAPE : flags, countries, how have certain events/ppl shaped history? 

COLOUR : race, colour is a signifier - political parties, certain groups within history e.g. tudor rose, communism 

TEXTURE : the wearing down of buildings and objects - antiques, ruins 

COLLAGE : textbooks - bringing together of visual and narrative parts of history into a cohesive piece, collage of historical objects - hipster culture, inhabiting old buildings - contrast between old and new. 

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